wirenood
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Copper Wire Found
- Thread starter wirenood
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- Chapel Hill, NC
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- Retired Electrical Contractor
Take to a junk yard. There is no way to know without weight and everyday the price changes. There may be an exchange rate online. Strip it and its worth more
mjf
Senior Member
in my area, as is it's about $1.50 per pound.
stripped it's about $2.50 per pound.
price varies day to day
stripped it's about $2.50 per pound.
price varies day to day
ptonsparky
Tom
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- EC - retired
I hope you have a clean "record".
My mother in law was fingerprinted for the first time in her 80 some years when she took a small can of it in. Left overs from my father in laws hobbies over the years.
My mother in law was fingerprinted for the first time in her 80 some years when she took a small can of it in. Left overs from my father in laws hobbies over the years.
growler
Senior Member
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- Atlanta,GA
Several thousand dollars? I doubt that.
But it could be worth over a $100 and that's not bad.
If someone thinks it could be worth thousands maybe you could make them a deal on it ( say $500).
John120/240
Senior Member
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- Olathe, Kansas
$1.70 a pound here. I was disappointed in the price that I got vs the time it took to strip it. Some cash is better than no cash.
ptonsparky
Tom
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- EC - retired
Has the price of wire gone down to? I hadn't looked lately.
ggunn
PE (Electrical), NABCEP certified
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- Austin, TX, USA
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- Consulting Electrical Engineer - Photovoltaic Systems
If a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue costs more than $275, I'll drink me some Tullamore Dew instead.
zog
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- Charlotte, NC
$250 here
mjf
Senior Member
I bet there is closer to 300 pounds there. I don't think that's a mop bucket. I think the top of that "bucket" is about 18" in diameter.
mopowr steve
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- NW Ohio
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- Electrical contractor
Have one of those buckets and when filled with bare copper will weigh approx. 100 pounds
James L
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- Kansas Cty, Mo, USA
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- Electrician
Maybe I should go check my garage, too.
I'd say that bucket might have 120-130 pounds Around K.C. it about $3.25 for bare bright. And the want to see ID and a license plate number. Too many morons our stealing copper nowadays
electricalist
Senior Member
- Location
- dallas tx
Its about 2.50 stripped, here. They want id proof of residence like a bill and they mail you a check. Im on the bottom when it comes to good scrap wire, so for the guys in my shoes. Drill a hole in a board same size as wire feed through hole then run a screw virticle down till it just sticks in the wire. Then pull wire through. The screw will cut the outer all the way through then peel and sell. .
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- Licensed Electrician
What a horrible memory this thread brings up. Me and a fellow workmate scrapped out a bunch of copper and got about three grand at sixty cents a few months before the price shot up to $3.50 per pound.
kwired
Electron manager
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- NE Nebraska
I don't think they do anything with your print other then have it on their files as evidence of who represented a particular purchase transaction via their print. I doubt they are tied into any police records and are able to do do any on demand search of your print for the purpose of rejecting your scrap items.
What would they do if you had both hands as prosthetic? take a toe print?
ggunn
PE (Electrical), NABCEP certified
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- Austin, TX, USA
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- Consulting Electrical Engineer - Photovoltaic Systems
No booze is worth that much to me.
There's a hotel bar here in town that I used to frequent, and way up on a shelf behind the bar there was a very ornate bottle. When I asked about it he told me that it was some very rare old cognac that was $250 a shot. A shot.
He also told me about a well-to-do CEO type who came in one night with a few of his underlings and ordered a round of that stuff without telling them what it was. One of the underlings, trying to impress the boss, ordered two more rounds on his tab. When the guy got the $2000 tab he nearly passed out, but his boss, after enjoying the spectacle of his minion teetering on the verge of apoplexy for a couple of minutes, bailed the poor bastard out.
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electricguy61
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It's definitely worth stripping
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